CSS Wizardry – Can CSS be too modular
March 9, 2015Harry Roberts from CSS Wizardry answers a question he got about Atomic CSS and the proper amount of abstraction in your CSS.
That is to say, having
padding: 6px;appear in your CSS 50 times is no big deal. You will feel no performance impact. Gzip will crunch the bejeezus out of it.However, manually typing out
padding: 6px;50 times in your Sass (or LESS, or whatever) is a problem.